Hi All
My name is Lara, We are building a rather large extension to the side of our house, it is a two storey extension and also extending the exsisting back of the house by 4.8meters. Plans have all been approved until some mentiond DRAINS, we dug down to see how far they run and have had a survey done with cameras etc and they are fine no damage BUT and there is always a BUT! the sewer pipe is 7ft deep, so the building work hasn't even started and what I want to know (being a female and not sure about these things) do our foundations have to run that deep? the man hole is in next door neighbours garden. Our builders say it is not safe to dig that deep incase the next door neighbours wall collapses (We live in a Semi).
THe drain at the side of the house which means that unless its moved or redirected it would be smack bang in the middle of my kitchen - is it expensive to re-direct drains or any solutions and ideas would be helpful
Thanks
My name is Lara, We are building a rather large extension to the side of our house, it is a two storey extension and also extending the exsisting back of the house by 4.8meters. Plans have all been approved until some mentiond DRAINS, we dug down to see how far they run and have had a survey done with cameras etc and they are fine no damage BUT and there is always a BUT! the sewer pipe is 7ft deep, so the building work hasn't even started and what I want to know (being a female and not sure about these things) do our foundations have to run that deep? the man hole is in next door neighbours garden. Our builders say it is not safe to dig that deep incase the next door neighbours wall collapses (We live in a Semi).
THe drain at the side of the house which means that unless its moved or redirected it would be smack bang in the middle of my kitchen - is it expensive to re-direct drains or any solutions and ideas would be helpful
Thanks